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The Smart Campaign is working with microfinance leaders from around the world to provide microfinance institutions with the tools and resources they need to deliver transparent, respectful, and prudent financial services to all clients.
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- Pursuing a Balanced View of Microfinance
In the last 10 years, microfinance entered the world’s consciousness and has become a revolutionary force, changing the way that we view international economic development and the poor’s ability to improve their own lives. Microfinance offers a business method to achieve development ends. No serious practitioner has claimed that microfinance is a panacea given the multidimensional nature of poverty...
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- European Microfinance Platform Urges for Rational Response to Indian Crisis
European Microfinance Platform
By Team e-MFP
December 2, 2010Yesterday, at the European Microfinance Week 2010, the future of the microfinance sector was discussed, taking into account the backlash of the Indian Andhra Pradesh crisis. 382 participants, representing 285 organisations (NGOs, banks, investors, researchers, and development institutions) voiced their confidence in the future of microfinance, highlighting that the majority of microfinance institutions continue to practice responsible lending, contributing to financial inclusion and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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What’s Happening
- MIF Supports Improvement of Microfinance Client Protection Practices in Latin America and the Caribbean
Support for the Smart Campaign will allow client protection assessments, certification testing, pilot projects, and translation and dissemination of tools to foster adherence to Client Protection Principles at leading microfinance institutions.
Read more » - Client Protection Certification Program
NEW! Client Protection Certification Program – Call for Comments! Click here to learn how you can share your thoughts, feedback, questions with the Campaign.
Read more » - Smart Campaign releases 'Over-indebtedness of Microborrowers in Ghana'
A new report from the Campaign, written by Jessica Schicks, takes a deep look at how over-indebtedness is perceived among Ghana's MFI clients, whose perspectives have implications for the industry as a whole.
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